La Shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération »

The emergence of the second generation of post-Holocaust German authors in the 1980s represented the turning of a page in the history of German Holocaust literature. These writers broke with the previous generation’s practice of using the Holocaust to define themselves. They demonstrate a growing aw...

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Hoofdauteurs: Steinecke, Hartmut, Mannoni, Olivier
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spelling cairn-RHSHO_201_0239RHSHORevue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2014-2-page-239?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho.201.0239 La Shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération » Steinecke, HartmutMannoni, Olivier2014 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 201 | 2 | 2014-10-22 | p. 239-264 | 2111-885X RHSHO_20110 The emergence of the second generation of post-Holocaust German authors in the 1980s represented the turning of a page in the history of German Holocaust literature. These writers broke with the previous generation’s practice of using the Holocaust to define themselves. They demonstrate a growing awareness of their own Jewish identity and maintain a critical perspective on their family history, while simultaneously taking into account their own socialization and existence in a society that often struggles with latent anti-Semitism. Looking at the work of Barbara Honigmann, Maxim Biller and Gila Lustiger, we analyze how evidence of this approach can be seen in certain storytelling techniques and the use of the language of the executioners. We also discuss other works written by non-Jewish authors, including Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Bernhard Schlink and W.G. Sebald, who have tried to free themselves from the rigid way of writing that characterized the post-war decades. However, certain writing techniques that are essential to the work of Jewish authors, such as irony and satire, remain taboo for these non-Jewish writers.Cairn free access
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description The emergence of the second generation of post-Holocaust German authors in the 1980s represented the turning of a page in the history of German Holocaust literature. These writers broke with the previous generation’s practice of using the Holocaust to define themselves. They demonstrate a growing awareness of their own Jewish identity and maintain a critical perspective on their family history, while simultaneously taking into account their own socialization and existence in a society that often struggles with latent anti-Semitism. Looking at the work of Barbara Honigmann, Maxim Biller and Gila Lustiger, we analyze how evidence of this approach can be seen in certain storytelling techniques and the use of the language of the executioners. We also discuss other works written by non-Jewish authors, including Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Bernhard Schlink and W.G. Sebald, who have tried to free themselves from the rigid way of writing that characterized the post-war decades. However, certain writing techniques that are essential to the work of Jewish authors, such as irony and satire, remain taboo for these non-Jewish writers.
author Steinecke, Hartmut
Mannoni, Olivier
spellingShingle Steinecke, Hartmut
Mannoni, Olivier
La Shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération »
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Mannoni, Olivier
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title La Shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération »
title_short La Shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération »
title_full La Shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération »
title_fullStr La Shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération »
title_full_unstemmed La Shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération »
title_sort la shoah dans la littérature de la « deuxième génération »
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